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Title: Integration of the Snowdrift Modeling into the French Operational Chain for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Date: 2009
Authors: Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud
Description: Over the last years, the Snow Study Centre of Météo-France (CEN) has developed several versions of a model called Sytron for the assessment of t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0356-0360.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow modeling, operational avalanche forecasting
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Title: Avalanche Patterns as Aid in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2009
Authors: Patrick Nairz
Description: Everyone who deals with avalanches over long periods of time automatically draws upon that experience when determining avalanche hazards. The principl...
Object ID: issw-2009-0389-0390.pdf
Keywords: avalanche pattern, avalanche forecasting, decision making
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Title: The Challenges for Scottish Avalanche Forecasters Observing a Maritime Snowpack
Date: 2009
Authors: Mark Diggins
Description: Avalanche Forecasting in the Highlands of Scotland presents many challenges for the Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service forecast team, the mar...
Object ID: issw-2009-0024-0026.pdf
Keywords: scotland, forecasting, challenges
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Title: The Avalanche Events of December 2008 in Ceresole Reale (Piedmont Western Italian Alps)
Date: 2009
Authors: M. Maggioni, A. Caimi, D. Godone, M. Freppaz, A. Bertea, M. Cordola, M.C. Prola, V. Bertoglio, B. Frigo
Description: December 2008 was characterized by intense precipitations, in particular in the middle of the month (14th – 17th) throughout all the Italian We...
Object ID: issw-2009-0025-0029.pdf
Keywords: avalanche case study, extreme event, mapping, forest damage
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Title: The Avalanche Cycle of December 2008 in the Eastern Part of the Southern French Alps: Cross Comparison of Meteorological and Avalanche Data
Date: 2009
Authors: C. Coléou, N. Eckert, M. Deschatres
Description: Abnormal temporal clustering of avalanche events are generally named as avalanche cycles. Quantifying their magnitude implies using an appropriate de...
Object ID: issw-2009-0030-0034.pdf
Keywords: avalanche cycle, case study, return period
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Title: Erfahrungen mit der Gratlawine be i Blatten, Kt. Wallis, Schweiz
Date: 2009
Authors: Peter Schwitter, Lukas Stoffel
Description: Am 22. Februar 1999 ging die Gratlawine bei Blatten in sehr grossem Ausmass nieder. 15 Gebäude wurden total zerstört, 24 Gebäude beschädi...
Object ID: issw-2009-0035-0038.pdf
Keywords: lawinen, fallbeispiel, baulicher lawinenschutz, temporäre lawinenschutzmassnahmen, künstliche lawinenauslösung
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Title: Automated Detection and Mapping of Rough Snow Surfaces Including Avalanche Deposits Using Airborne Optical Remote Sensing
Date: 2009
Authors: Yves Bühler, Andreas Hüni, Marc Christen, Roland Meister, Tobias Kellenberger
Description: The characteristics of snow pack surfaces are spatially and temporally highly variable. Today, in situ field observations provide mostly isolated info...
Object ID: issw-2009-0170-0174.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, avalanche mapping, airborne digital scanner, rapid mapping, snow surface roughness, wind modelled snowpack
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Title: Snowpack Depth Modelling and Water Availability from Lidar Measurements in Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2009
Authors: Ignacio MORENO BAÑOS, Antoni RUIZ GARCÍA, Jordi MARTURIÀ I ALAVEDRA, Pere OLLER I FIGUERAS, Jordi PIÑA IGLESIAS, Carles GARCIA SELLÉS, Pere MARTÍNEZ I FIGUERAS, Julià TALAYA LÓPEZ
Description: In order to evaluate water reserves in mountain watersheds the Institut Geològic de Catalunya (IGC) jointly with Institut Cartogràfic de Catalun...
Object ID: issw-2009-0202-0206.pdf
Keywords: snowpack depth, stepwise regression tree, lidar, geographic information systems (gis), pyrenees
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Title: Could Retrieval of Snow Layer Formation by Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Help Avalanche Forecasting? Presentation of First Results.
Date: 2009
Authors: Rune Solberg, Regula Frauenfelder, Hans Koren, Kalle Kronholm
Description: Of special interest within the field of avalanche research and avalanche warning are properties related to snow grain type and snow grain size at the...
Object ID: issw-2009-0207-0210.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote sensing, snow grain size, snow temperature, snow wetness
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Title: Recent Snow Cover Variations and Avalanche Activities in the Southern Alps
Date: 2009
Authors: Mauro Valt, Paola Cianfarra, Daniele Moro, Renato Zasso
Description: Snow and albedo play a significant role in the planet’s radiation balance. Snow cover extension, of the Northern Hemisphere in the last forty ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0229-0233.pdf
Keywords: snow cover variation, avalanche activity, risk
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Title: Measurement of Dynamic Water-Entry Value for Dry Snow
Date: 2009
Authors: Takafumi Katsushima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Toshiro Kumakura, Atsushi Sato
Description: In soil physics, many people have discussed about mechanisms of developing preferential flow based on porous media hydraulics. In snow science, there ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0248-0251.pdf
Keywords: preferential flow, water-entry value, homogeneous dry snow
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Title: Observations and Analysis of Two Wet-Snow Avalanche Cycles
Date: 2009
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Rebecca Mott, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Wet-snow avalanches threaten mountain communities and communication lines. Their formation as well as the snowpack processes leading to wet-snow insta...
Object ID: issw-2009-0262-0266.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, wet snow, liquid water content, avalanche release
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Title: The Effect of Daytime Warming on Snowpack Creep
Date: 2009
Authors: Thomas Exner, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Snowpack warming is, besides loading by precipitation and wind-transport, one of the major triggers contributing to natural avalanche release. Establi...
Object ID: issw-2009-0271-0275.pdf
Keywords: snowpack creep, daytime warming, stability, field measurements, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Interpretation of Prevalent Avalanche Scenarios on the Basis of the Anticrack Model
Date: 2009
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Joachim Heierli
Description: Each winter the build-up of snow conditions is unique and distinctive, but a wide variety of avalanche situations can be attributed to a relatively sm...
Object ID: issw-2009-0276-0281.pdf
Keywords: avalanche scenarios, anticrack model, avalanche formation
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Title: Where to Dig? – On Optimizing Sampling Strategy
Date: 2009
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Sascha Bellaire
Description: Snow slope stability evaluation is often based on a single test location within a slope. However, we know that snow cover properties and stability may...
Object ID: issw-2009-0298-0300.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche release, snow stability evaluation, snow stability test
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